tell me about it, I asked for this game for x-mas but my wife decided to buy it at a used game store because my oldest daughter told her it probably wouldn’t run on my system. (like she really knows what she's talking about. it runs perfect.) well, as you guessed it I cant play online or anything because the former owner registered it.
I understand the reasons for the restrictions although I don’t agree with it, but If/when someone takes these companies to court to rule on the first sale doctrine ill be right there with them.
if I pay money to purchase a game, its mine, not there’s. they may have created it but I own it.
saying they own it and are just renting it to you is like saying just because a chair maker made a chair he still owns the chair after you bought it.
think about it, the gaming companies are worried someone is going to copy the game and give it or sell it to someone else.
I can do the same thing in my garage with the chair. yet you don’t see anti-chair piracy things being installed on it. I realize that’s an over simplification but the principle is still the same.
frankly, no matter how you cut it, it IS just about control and greed.
if your really worried about pirates, quit shipping to areas that has the majority of them or don’t make the product. period.
because there is no way to prevent it in this day and age short of not releasing it.
and pirates were never customers in the first place. so worrying about profit loss due to them is moot.
(and by the way, all this about pirates is all the crap they made me go through and prove I owned the original copy of the game just to tell me they cant do it is why.)
so frankly stardock, your (supposed) position on piratecy, just went out the window. thanks to your customer support personnel you have proven to be like almost every other game company. Ill also be retracting everything I ever told anyone about your company.
but because you ALLOW me to play single player, I wont make it a personal crusade to make your ratings drop.
